Tuesday, January 10, 2012

2012 - A taste of things to come!

As most of you know, we announced a while back that we were working on some exciting new things for the website, these will be out for user testing in a few months, in the meantime here is a sneak peak...

Introducing the GeoNet smart-phone App...

It has some really cool features and our team of geeks are adding new things all the time! As you can see on the pic to the right ->
it is showing earthquakes from as little as '9 minutes ago' - so yes that means you can find out (roughly) how big etc an earthquake was within a few minutes. It generally takes between 2-5minutes for a preliminary result and as more data becomes available the figures can change slightly (its similar to the system USGS use at the moment).

This pic on the left <-- shows some older events, but also the color coding, the higher the intensity the darker shade of red the event will be. So white = small, light red = felt, deep red = the big ones!

You can also click on each event for more info (links to the www), map, refresh the event and share it.

There is a map button so you can see all of the recently located events and click on each for more info, and you see have 'all' events or select 'my' which allows you to choose events of a certain intensity, from a certain place and even (using your GPS or wireless) quakes near your current location.

So i hope you all enjoy this sneak peak, by the time it is released it will probably have even more neat functions!

NB: at the moment it will just be Android, but we do want / and will be working on an 'i' friendly App.

Come on Sara you cant whet our appetites and then tell us to wait for a few months... how about everyone on this blog getting a pre-release beta version? Looks pretty cool, but I would rather have no use for it...

About Me

I am a Public Information Specialist at GeoNet. Over the past few years i've been growing the GeoNet name through social media and presentations, and my goal is to increase awareness of what GeoNet does and how people can use the science information available.
I also help manage the info part of our website, answer public and media queries and occasionally get my name in the paper :-)